The national rugby team might not have given much reason for celebration on Saturday but South Africa’s Paralympic team continued to rake in the medals on the other side of the world; and Dyan Buis broke a Paralympic record. While the Springboks went down to New Zealand, Buis and Hilton Langenhoven helped maintain Team SA’s […]

The All Blacks scored 26 points in the second half for a comprehensive 41-13 victory over South Africa in Christchurch on Saturday The victory all but secures New Zealand the Rugby Championship trophy with two rounds left in the tournament. This was South Africa’s best first-half performance of the year against a New Zealand side […]

Charl du Toit became Team South Africa’s first double medallist of the Rio Paralympics on Friday. He added to his T37 gold medal in the 100m dash at the weekend by snatching another victor in the 400m event. That meant that the 23-year-old boosted the team’s tally to 14 medals with just Saturday and Sunday’s […]

Olympic swimmer Chad le Clos and his longtime coach, and family friend, Graham Hill have parted ways. In a statement released Thursday, Le Clos said: “Graham Hill has done a great job as my coach for 14 years. We have achieved a lot together at every level of the sport: The Olympics, The World Championships, […]

It was medals galore for Team South Africa on Thursday, as another four rained down in Rio on the country’s best day of the 2016 Paralympics. But there was also heartache for blind runner Louzanne Coetzee who came third… but was disqualified. Two golds, a silver and bronze joined the nine medals already harvested by the team […]

Team South Africa had their second double-gold day of the Rio Paralympics on Thursday as first Ernst van Dyk then Reinhardt Hamman ended top of their class! Van Dyk, who raced to fifth spot in the H5 time trial, pulled the rabbit out of the hat to win the men’s road race over 60 kilometres […]

South Africa may just have a potential F1 racing driver in our midst! At just 18-years-old South African racer, Ewan Taylor, pulled off an amazing feat this past weekend, grabbing third position in a Porsche Super Sports Cup race… after only half a day’s practice in a race car ever! Taylor is more renowned for his […]

Anruné Liebenberg scorched to 400-metre track silver on Wednesday night to take Team South Africa’s medal tally to one short of double figures. Running in the T45-46-47 classification (upper limb impairment) she repeated her feat from the last Paralympics in London four years ago. Sure the time may have been a full 2.03sec slower than […]

And then there were eight! Paralympic veteran and team flag bearer Zanele Situ threw an eighth Team South Africa medal into the kitty at the Rio Paralympics on Tuesday evening. Situ, 45, who is now experiencing her fifth Paralympics, having already medalled in Sydney (2000) and Athens four years later, took bronze in the F54 […]

Durban surfer Jordy Smith has won the world tour surf event at Lower Trestles, San Clemente, California, USA. After knocking out Brazil’s Filipe Toledo in the Semi-Finals earlier today, Jordy took on Joel Parkinson from the Gold Coast, Australia… and emerged victorious! It’s a fantastic achievement for Jordy who spent the previous year or so suffering from injury. […]

Big shot-putter Tyrone Pillay pushed Team South Africa’s medal tally to seven at the Rio Paralympics on Monday. After a bumper day on Sunday with four medals (one gold, two silvers and a bronze) Pillay kept up the medal-winning momentum in the F42 category as he heaved the sphere a career-best 13.91 metres. That comfortably […]

South Africa woke up on Monday to anything but a blue Monday as Team South Africa celebrated six of the best medals in Rio de Janeiro. After a super productive afternoon on the track where first Charl du Toit and Fanie van der Merwe won gold and bronze in the T37 100m final and Ilse […]

In a classic race, described as a “two-man game of chess”, South African rider Brad Binder duelled it out with Enea Bastianini at Misano World Circuit to clinch his fifth Moto3™ victory of the season. The 21-year-old from Potchefstroom was racing for Red Bull KTM Ajo under a brilliantly blue sky on the Riviera di Rimini in San Marino. […]

Charl du Toit and Fanie van der Merwe banked Team South Africa’s third and fourth medals of the Paralympic Games in Rio on Sunday as they ran to first and third place respectively in the T37 100-metre track final. And 10 minutes after their gold-bronze sprint final it was Stellenbosch training partner Ilse Hayes who […]

As South Africans tweeted their congratulations to Caster Semenya, who pulled off an extraordinary victory in the women’s 400m at the Brussels’ Diamond League meeting on Friday, the Olympic 800m gold medallist said now it’s time to “eat, sleep and study”. Semenya finished her season recording a personal best of 50.40 for the win that […]

The Wallabies defeated the Springboks 23-17 at the Suncorp Stadium in Brisbane on Saturday after the South Africans failed to capitalise on a good start in the first half. Springbok coach Allister Coetzee said afterwards he was not pleased with his team’s discipline. The two teams scored two tries apiece but the boot of Bernard […]

It was an emotional moment for Hilton Langenhoven as he bounced back from track disappointment to grab South Africa’s second Gold medal of the Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro on Saturday. (Swimmer Kevin Paul won SA’s first Gold.) Langenhoven had been disqualified from the T13 400-metres semi-final for stepping outside of his lane but a leap […]

While social media pundits in South Africa have been arguing over why Caster Semenya was not gifted with an Audi R8 sports car like fellow Olympic gold medallist Wayde van Niekerk, the two athletes themselves have only love and mutual respect for each other. A tweet by radio presenter Anele Mdoda summed up the feeling of some disgruntled sports […]

Team South Africa’s Paralympic medal chase is off to a golden start after swimmer Kevin Paul powered his way to breaststroke gold in Rio de Janeiro on Thursday night. Paul, 25, won the SB9 100-metre event in 1min 04.86sec to win his second Paralympic gold medal after doing the same in Beijing eight years ago. […]

Team South Africa’s 2016 Paralympic Games campaign took another step forward in Rio de Janeiro close to midnight on Wednesday (SA time) with a spectacular opening ceremony. The ceremony was at the iconic Maracana Stadium, the same stadium used for the Olympic Games last month. Over the course of 11 days just over 4,000 athletes from […]

Friends, family and colleagues have reached out to South African doctor and swimmer Karon (Kiki) Marx for her incredible achievement of attempting to swim the English Channel… and continuing against all odds until she was forced, just before the end, to leave the water. It must have been heartbreaking, after months of preparation, to have […]

Olympic medallist and 800m world record breaker Wayde van Niekerk has returned home to a modest welcome from fans… and a new Audi. He said he hopes to not get too many fines for speeding in it… Odessa Swarts and Elsie Simbine having a chat while waiting for the arrival of their sons at OR […]

South Africa’s world record-breaking athlete Wayde van Niekerk, his coach Ans Botha, and fellow Olympic athlete Akani Simbine are arriving back in South Africa Wednesday morning! If you’d like to be there to welcome the Olympic heroes, they’re on flight AF990 which is due to touch down at OR Tambo International Airport at 09h55. It’s […]

South Africa’s Chad le Clos and Russia’s Yulia Efimova were honoured Sunday as the best swimmers of the FINA Moscow meet this weekend, with Le Clos now in possession of nine Gold, two Silver and one Bronze in the Swimming World Cup series 2016 at the end of Cluster 1 (Paris, Berlin, Moscow). Le Clos won his third […]

Merely by virtue of the fact that they’re at the Paralympic Games in Rio means that each and every athlete who’ll be in action has already faced one struggle or another. So the 45 men and women representing Team South Africa are used to dealing daily with adversity. One of them, Commonwealth Games medallist and […]